The Ampersand 36 Ways

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Happy Friday! Today I released a fun new freebie as part of my free Lettering Toolkit: 36 Ampersands Practice Sheets. You can learn four dozen different styles of everyone’s favorite glyph: the ampersand. From flourished to minimalist, there’s a style for every application here!

My Friday video is a real-time demonstration of me practicing the ampersands. You can watch me use a variety of Procreate brushes to create the various styles and sizes:

 
 
 

If you need some fresh calligraphy brushes for your toolkit, I made these practice sheets with the pointed pen and monoline brushes from my Ultimate Lettering & Calligraphy Procreate Kit. For a list of the specific brushes I used, download the sheets and check out page 2 of the packet.

 
 

 

Brushes used:

I made these practice sheets with the pointed pen and monoline brushes from my Ultimate Lettering & Calligraphy Procreate Kit. For a list of the specific brushes I used, download the sheets and check out page 2 of the packet.

iPad tools used:

Procreate App
12.9" iPad Pro
Apple Pencil
Touch screen glove

More iPad calligraphy videos:

My Technique for Flourishing Calligraphy in Procreate
Flourished Calligraphy Quote in Real-Time for Procreate
Analog Calligraphy Layout
iPad Calligraphy Flourishing with Commentary

 

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